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- 4661: The Steam Engine
- ... amount of workers available in manufacturing, which increased merchants costs. As a result, merchants turned increasingly to machinery, which was powered by the steam engine, for greater production and also turned to factories for central control over their workers. (Johnson, 30) The steam engine proved to be a reliable investment for merchants of the textile industries not only because it wasnt accident prone like humans and increased production by unimaginable ...
- 4662: The Crucible: Abigail Is Selfish and Evil
- ... and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught ...
- 4663: The Entertainment Universe
- ... a common theme. The discourse of the artists is exhibited to the mass populace in movie theaters, prime time television and auditoriums filled with thousands of people. The lunacy is able to occur because we control it. It's the mass populace that buys the records, watches the movies and pays the salaries of the artists. It's what we want to see, hear and feel because the entertainment universe consists ...
- 4664: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... strategist who won the first major Union victories during the Civil War; however, political leadership proved to be far different from military leadership for Grant. While in office from 1869-1877 Grant scarcely attempted to control events, made injudicious appointments to public office, and had official corruption taint his administration, although Grant himself was never said to be actually have been involved in this corruption. The military life had no charms ...
- 4665: Nuclear Weapons
- ... number is three times larger than the entire United States budget for World War II (Schwartz 1). This number covers most, but not all, of the costs required to develop, produce, display, operate, support and control nuclear forces over the past fifty years. Anywhere from five-hundred billion to one trillion dollars could be added to this, to cover the remaining costs (Schwartz 1). Nuclear weapons are estimated to have used ...
- 4666: Upton Sinclair Paper
- ... be background details of a much larger picture. Sinclair's main fight in his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse" was to bring about the ideology of Socialism and how government needed to step in and take control. The grotesque ways in which the meat was being processed in these plants also relates to the ways in which workers were being treated as well. People working in these plants were about as valuable ...
- 4667: William Bradford
- ... and daily life. Also in his books he interprets the Mayflower Compact, an important document which was a rough base of their ultimate goal- freedom. Although initially the purpose of the Mayflower Compact was to control renegades aboard the Mayflower who were threatening to go their own way when the ship reached land, the Mayflower Compact succeeded in keeping the Pilgrims united as one. The Mayflower Compact endorsed the right of ...
- 4668: Thoeries of Evolution
- ... have broad tolerances, which may better enable them to survive extensive changes. Human beings are uniquely adapted in that they make and use tools and devices and invent and propogate procedures that give them extended control over their environments. Humans are significantly changing the environment itself. The effects are most complex and cannot be predicted, and yet like the likelihood is that evolutionary patterns in the future will reflect the influence ...
- 4669: Superconductivity
- ... they push against each other and make the train float about 4 inches above ground. The interesting concept comes with propulsion. The operator sends and AC current through the electromagnets on the sides and can control the speed of the train by changing the frequency of the pulses. Supposing that the positive peak reaches the first electromagnet on the side of the track. That magnet will push the magnet making the ...
- 4670: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
- ... Space Agency (DARA) is a partner with NASA in the SOFIA project. DARA will provide the telescope and NASA will provide the rest of the facility including the 747 aircraft, aircraft modifications, on-board mission control system, ground facilities and support equipment, overall management, system integration and operations. The SOFIA project is currently moving forward with evaluation of proposals for prime contracts for the U.S. and German portions of the ...
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